Handspun!
This is some handspun (drop spindle) merino/tencel blend that I got at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival last year. I started spinning this blend when I finished the last set. In July.
There's probably about 250 yards of somewhat worsted weight yarn here. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with it, and then I held it up to some alpaca yarn that my SP3 sent me.
Nice, eh? I'm thinking these would be accent colors for a fair isle yoked cardigan. Because I'm a huge fan of the fair isle yoked cardigans. Of course, this means buying more yarn (a lilac worsted - probably cascade 220). I'm on a yarn diet for a while in an attempt to build up my savings, which had been depleted in the past few months that I had a steady, but paltry income. I can splurge on a Babe Pinkie Wheel (especially if I can get one for less than $100) but that's about it for a while, unless I can start designing some patterns that people want to buy.
Once I finished this, I immediately started spinning some pima cotton (we're not buddies) and some tussah silk that was in a sampler pack of fiber that I got off of ebay a few years ago. And oh my goodness, I love tussah silk! It spins up finer than a lot of wool.
Once I finish that tussah silk I have a ball of sparkly pink wool/mylar roving and this:
Actually, I got two of these at a yarn party that k8 hosted at the end of February. What I'll make out of the finished yarn, I don't know. But my fair isle bags are the only things I've knit out of my own handspun, and they were felted for their own good.
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